V prutocné ulicce: román.

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  • Praha (Prague): Odeon, 1928
By Erenburg, Il'ia; Karel Teige.
Praha (Prague): Odeon, 1928. First edition. Acceptable. 20 cm; 196 pages. Bound in full cloth with panel design in red and gilt on upper board by Karel Teige. Shaken in binding, splitting at crown and heel. Some gilding worn away from upper board.

Cover design by avant-garde artist Karel Teige. After welcoming the Soviet army as liberators, Teige was silenced by the Communist government in 1948. In 1951 he died of a heart attack, said to be a result of a ferocious Soviet press campaign against him as a 'Trotskyite degenerate,' his papers were destroyed by the secret police, and his published work was suppressed for decades.

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Title

 V prutocné ulicce: román.

Author

Erenburg, Il'ia; Karel Teige.

Condition

Good

Publisher

Odeon: Praha (Prague)

Date

1928

Edition

First edition


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